Southeast Texas Food Bank gets $10,500 donation

H-E-B customers statewide took a stance against hunger with a record breaking Help End Hunger campaign, raising $444,500 to benefit 15 Texas food banks. This year’s final total surpassed last year’s campaign by $80,200.

On Thursday, a check in the amount of $10,500 will be presented to the Southeast Texas Food Bank as result of a tear-pad campaign that ran May 9, 2012 to July 15, 2012.

Tear-off coupons in the amounts of $1, $3 and $5 were located at checkout stands in area H-E-B grocery stores, where customers could add the desired donation amount to their final grocery bill. The money collected is awarded to the food bank that serves the area where the funds were raised. As a result of the donation, more than 36,750 meals will be made available to Beaumont’s hungry families.